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The atomic bombs were primarily dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to force Japan to surrender and avoid an estimated 500,000 to 1 million Allied casualties and several million Japanese soldiers and civilians in the planned invasion of the Japanese mainland, Operation Downfall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
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